Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express
Context. If I am ordering it at a restaurant, it's understood that I want a Coke, because nobody would order an unspecified "soft drink" (unless it's the sort of place where you fill your own cup, in which case that essentially is what you're ordering).
On the other hand, if I ask my wife to pick up some coke at the store, she knows I may mean Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper, Sprite or whatever else we need.
Neither ... it's called a Frig :0)
Soda:
We had a program at our church and the choir director brought all of us moon pies but said he could not afford to get everyone a RC! For some reason, the moon pie did not taste as good as it did when I was a kid.
And while we're at it, not all photocopiers are Xerox's.
Exactly. That's why God errr .... JimRob created vanity posts.
You sure about that? I thought they were called reefers.
>> THat's the problem with Texas... Too many homophones! << -- Barney Frank.
I'm from Long Island, where people wait ON line in the supermarket. We have the most phonemes of anywhere in the world according to one linguistic study I saw.
None of the capitalized vowel sounds of the following words are the same:
pOrk, pOre, pOOr, pOUr, pUre, pUrr, pEr, pErson, persOn, prisOn, Undo, bUnt, bUndt, fOOt, rOOt, rOUt, tOO, cOOl, rUle, fUle, dUEl, hOt, dOg, pA, pAw, pAr, pAh, pOp, cOffee, chOcolate, cAll, bIte, dIrt, bIt, bEEn, bEAn, bEAr, bEEr, fIEnd, frEInd, slEIGH, mAny, mArry, mAry, hAIry, Again, sOUnd, gUll, seagUll, beag(UH)le,
There are some distinctions I've heard people make which are not make on Long Island:
"dO" and "dEW"
"frIEnd" and "agAIn"
And why do Brits say they're "on holiday" instead of "on vacation"?
What's with Tabasco sauce in the south
Every time I visit my hubby's relative down there .. there is ALWAYS a big bottle of that on the kitchen table
In SW Missouri, it's Pop, or Sody-Pop.
In my neck of central Illinois it was "Sodie." I remember when I was about 12 I went with some adult cousins to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field and one of my cousins yelled to the vendor, "HEY, SODIE MAN!" A hundred people turned to see what kind of hick they had in their midst.
I'm in a 'pop' zone, but picked up soda when I lived in upstate NY years ago. I have relatives in a 'tonic' zone, which is funny to hear. I get a kick out of hearing everything called 'coke' in FL when I visit.
I knew kids who say it.
No .. reefers is another name for dope
If you go to New Orleans, a lot of people like to say cold drink for soft drink...but they usually understand coke means soft drink. They may have trouble understanding pop, unless maybe you say soda pop.
But that is a town that says silver dime for dime coin, as opposed to 2 nickles or some other combination, and also a silver quarter, sometimes, same thing. They have chiffarobes for wardrobes (not what you wear - it's that portable closet like thing where you can hang your clothes up and also usually has drawers, too), sometimes call sidewalk banquettes (although I suspect that's dying out), sinks zinks (from the old days where sinks were made of zinc), and you go make groceries when you go to the grocery store. Street median strips are called neutral grounds, too...
And my favorite New Orleanian term, Lagniappe -it means that little something extra thrown in, like a store where you send your kid to buy groceries might give him a cookie as lagniappe. (pronounced LAN -yap)
Now I live in Pop land...but to me, a carbonated beverage is a coke. And usually is a Coke!
(we have a running joke here. I don't let my boys put Pepsi in the fridge, which I still call an icebox, btw , but I am not totally prejudiced against Pepsico...we all like Mountain dew. And it is allowed in the fridge.)
So, go have a col' drink, but don't forget it's a soda or a coke while you're at it, and all this extra is just lagniappe...
Merry Christmas!
Maybe it was a brand name at one point. I've heard people call a couch a "chamberlain" too, which is probably due to being fairly close to Canuckastan, where that name is rampant. My mom calls a couch a davenport, as do many of the older folks I know.
My Granpa (from Roxbury, MA) always called it Tonic. The rest of our family calls it Soda.
When I moved to WA state and they kept calling it Pop I was perplexed. Of course when I ordered a Grinder they thought I was from another planet.
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